Perusall What It Is Perusall (www.perusall.com) is a “social e-reader” that allows students to annotate course material together. It works with PDFs, Word and Excel documents, videos, images, ePub ebooks, and some websites. Perusall was developed by instructors at Harvard who were trying to solve the problem of student engagement with reading. They recognized that […]
Flip What It Is Flip is video-based asynchronous discussion tool. It allows teachers to ask a question and have students respond in a video that is under 10 minutes long. Students are also able to respond to one another, creating a video-based discussion threads. You can control the maximum length of your students’ videos. You
Wix What it is Wix is a website-building platform. While it’s much more robust than needed for an educational setting (e.g., businesses use it to sell products), it’s an easy-to-use free website-builder. (There are other website creation platforms, like WordPress and Squarespace, but the ODL recommends Wix because of its ease-of-use for first-time website builders).
Wakelet What it is Wakelet is a website that lets people post materials collaboratively. It can act like a classroom bulletin board for documents, website, images, text, etc. that students want to share with each other or that you want to share with them. (Wakelet is similar to Padlet and Google Keep, but it is
Slido What it is Slido is a classroom response system that allows teachers to run interactive activities online during class. With Slido, you can create multiple choice or multiple select questions, open answer questions, word clouds, ranking, and more. It integrates seamlessly with Google Slides and PowerPoint, and it can be used in Zoom or
Mini Whiteboards What It Is Mini whiteboards are personal-sized dry erase boards that can be used for individuals in small group or precept settings or by groups in a large class. These little dry-erase boards can be fantastic for language-learning or for quick information recall. They can also be used to play games or to
Accordance What it is Accordance is a Bible study software that provides a variety of tools to assist with reading scripture in its original languages and with biblical interpretation. It facilitates word studies and offers research resources such as images and graphics to enhance study. The Greek and Hebrew collections allow for close study of